Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The sweet-wine bill was not advanced at
al last week.
The Lorillard strikers at Jersey City were
paid off on Saturday.
The House has begun consideration of
the river and harbor bill.
The Kentucky penitentiary at Frankfort
was burned on Saturday.
Van Wyck still has the inside track in
the Nebraska Senatorial contest.
Two men were killed by a snowslide in
Marshalrs Basin, Col, On Friday.
Miss Lucy Stanley, of Indiana, has been
chosen as Queen of the American Gypsies.
Michael Davitt was given reception at
the Philadelphia Academy of Music Sat
urday night.
A new trial has been ordered in the case
of David Stewart against G. 2. Huntington,
at New York.
J. B. H. Bingham, executor of the estate
of David Davis, is missing from Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania.
The Mohican has secured rare stone
image from Easter Island, for the Smith
sonian Institution.
Charges of brutality toward prisoners
have been brought against the management
of the West Virginia Penitentiary.
The weekly New York bank statement
shows reserve increase of So, S25 600. The
banks now hold SIS, Gil 900 in excess of the
| legal rule.
The Government proposes to sue Muckle
| Brothers, of Oregon, for the value of tim
Der alleged TO have been cut from Govern
ment lands.
A. Howard Hinkle, of Cincinnati, has
sued Mrs Thurber, of the National Opera
| Company, for $4,000, which he paid to
Manager Charles E. Locke.
Botetourt county, Va, is excited over the
discovery of gold and silver deposits on the
| line of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The assays run from SIG per ton for sur
face rock to $50 at depth of fifteen feet.
| DIR. McGlynn has received second and
| final summons to Rome. more peremptory
| in its nature than the first. 1t is in the
shape of letter to him from Cardinal ST.
| meoni, Project of the Propaganda, in
closed in another letter to Archbishop Cor
rigan.
The frozen bodies of James E. Doughty
and Miss Bertha Benedict were found at
| the door of the young lady's home at Bos-
ton, ILL.,, ON Saturday morning, both shot
the heart. Both were young and highly
respected. The cause is thought to be jeal-
ousy. The tragedy must have occurred
during the night
Stanley is confident of being able to res
cue Emin Pasha.
opened on Saturday.
The Irish landlords are still making evic-
tons in county Kerry.
The opponents of the German army bill
are preparing for vigorous campaign be-
fore the people.
The negotiations between Gladstone and
the Liberal Unionists continue, and Cham
berlain is reported to have made several
| concessions.
The cholera prevails to an alarming ex-
| tent on the Upper Platte river, including all
| the towns above Montevido. Both in Uru
quay and the Argentine. Republic hundreds
of persons are daily dying.
Oscar Martin, chief of an Austrian ex-
petition which has been exploring Africa,
has arrived at Zanzibar. He has long been
believed to be dead, having been for eight
cen months in the interior.
A banquet was given in Paris, on Satur
| day evening, to celebrate the anniversary
of the capture of Yorktown. General
Boulanger was present, and toasted Presi-
| dent Cleveland and Minister McLane.
PACIFIC COAST.
The reported lynching of Frank Daniels
in Siskiyou county was canard.
| Remi Nadeau, a Los Angeles pioneer and
most prominent citizen, died on Saturday.
VIM Crooks and James ]. Moore have
been commissioned Postmasters respect
lively at Angel Camp and Independence.
Henry Hawkins was caved on and killed
in the Morning Star Mine, near Ophir,
Placer county, on Saturday. He was
native of Cornwall, England.
The Trustees of the Santa Rosa Free
| Library have determined to add to the
present stock LOCO or 1000 volumes of
standard and other desirable new books.
A boy named Freddie Marshall, IL years
| old, was on Saturday killed while out hunt
| ing with several others near Stockton.
Five boys were in the party and they had
one shotgun.
! young man named J. E. King, jew
eler, living at Adm, Modoc county, shot
man named Messenger at that place q few
| nights ago over some domestic trouble. 1t
! is not known how serious Messengers
| wounds are.
| Following is the result of the election at
Chico on Saturday On the water question,
precinct No. l, 2S1 votes cast, q majority
for water; Junction precinct, No. 2, POI
votes cast, Is majority against water; ma
jority for water. 6. The question now is if
q majority or a two-thirds vote carries the
election.
A little daughter of Rev. j. c. Jordan, of
Fresno, was seriously burned on Friday
evening by her clothes taking fire. She
had been left temporarily alone at home,
and was discovered by J. C. Harrington
running out of the house, screaming and
developed in flames. How she caught fire